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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-edu-devel] Patches vs. CVS... && KDevelop vs "other" editors
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-04-18 9:55:29
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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:28 pm, Whitehawk Stormchaser wrote:

> There were some ideas of kicking the kdevprj files out of the CVS, but with
> this I highly disagree... If app is written with the help of KDevelop, then
> there the kdevprj file too SHOULD be inside the CVS; under one condition:
> That the file is properly updated, meaning, that you update the WHOLE
> application.

Probably agree. But personally I find KDevelops' messing with Makfiles 
annoying. I would have absolutely no idea how to fix it in KDevelop (I'm not 
even sure I have KDevelop installed here), and it's annoying to have my 
changes to Makefile.am overwritten.

> But the main problem occurs, if smeone is actually working on smething
> REALLY big, like complete app rewrite, and the someone changes something
> small in the CVS, it could mess up the enitire new-born application.

Really then you should inform the people _NOT_ to commit.

> Solution: We start using patches, that are sent to the author / maintainer
> o fthe app...The changes in the patch will be overviewed and checked, and
> implemented into the new version, if necessarry...
>
> That sounds a reasonable and VERY rational idea to checkout... Both of
> them...

Patches aren't used in the vast majority of the rest of KDE CVS (only if 
you're not familair with the app and don't know the if the fix is correct). I 
don't really see why such a thing needs to be imposed here. Particularly as 
the rest of CVS had _hundreds_ more developers than kdeedu does.

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